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Small Drill Hole In The Skull For Puncture

Kansas rates for HCPCS 61105

A narrow hole is drilled through the skull so a needle or fine tube can be passed through to reach fluid inside or just outside the brain. It is done to draw off fluid or to take a pressure reading.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Small Drill Hole In The Skull For Puncture cost?

$4,377

Typical total for the visit. In Kansas, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,377 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $575 to the doctor who performs it, and $3,802 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$575$468 to $724
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$3,802$1,023 to $6,457

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $3,802 · 10th to 90th $562 to $9,120Professionalmedian $575 · 10th to 90th $407 to $741
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5K$10Kfacility $3,802professional $575

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$562.34
Median
$5,623.41
Typical High
$10,471.29
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$407.38
Median
$478.63
Typical High
$741.31
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$724.44
Median
$724.44
Typical High
$724.44
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$467.74
Median
$616.60
Typical High
$977.24
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$54.95
Median
$707.95
Typical High
$4,570.88
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$457.09
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$3,548.13
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$660.69
Median
$1,122.02
Typical High
$5,011.87
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$446.68
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$812.83

Where Kansas sits

The same service costs 10.2 times more in Nebraska than in West Virginia. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Kansas· 22nd of 50

$4,377

$575 physician + $3,802 facility

NE $9,324WV $916

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.